Anyone with any doubt that Mexico is not a friend of the United States only has to look at the statements coming out of that country recently. Regarding a recent armed standoff along the Texas-Mexico border that was caught on tape, the highest diplomat in Mexico, Luis Ernesto Derbez, dismissed it saying that it was American G.I.'s dressed up as Mexican troops in the video.

In addition to that Luis Ernesto Derbez plans to send a note to Condoleezza Rice demanding that US officials stop bashing Mexico on their lack of action on their side of the border to stop the flow of illegal aliens and drug smugglers.

Mexico's top diplomat suggested Thursday that American soldiers disguised as Mexican troops may have been in the military-style Humvee filmed earlier this week protecting a marijuana shipment on the border.

Foreign Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez also told a news conference that U.S. soldiers had helped drug smugglers before. However, he offered no evidence.

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"Members of the U.S. Army have helped protect people who were processing and transporting drugs," Derbez said. "And just as that has happened … it is very probable that something like that could have happened, that in reality they were members of some of their groups disguised as Mexican soldiers with Humvees."

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Derbez said there was no proof that the men seen in the incident were Mexicans.

Derbez also said his country will send a diplomatic note to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice demanding that U.S. officials tone down their comments on Mexico's security and immigration problems.